Snyder OKs rules for testing rape-evidence kits

June 27, 2014 | AP Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a law establishing timelines and processes for testing rape-evidence kits.

The governor signed the legislation Thursday afternoon at the Michigan State Police forensic science lab just outside Lansing.

The law requires police to obtain a kit from a health care facility within 14 days of being notified. The police will have 14 more days to submit the kit to a lab, where it will be analyzed within 90 days if there are "sufficient staffing and resources."

The state is spending $4 million to test thousands of unprocessed rape kits in Detroit. After taking over the city's crime lab in 2008, state police discovered more than 11,000 untested rape-evidence boxes dating back 25 years.